Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Hybrid Black Crappie vs Bass in new Pond

I'm guessing Indiana, but it's just a SWAG.

You need the proper spawning habitat in the pond for the YP and RES. LMB will overeat those fish and you will have management problems. Without the proper spawning habitat and without the correct cover for those young fish, even the SMB can overeat those fish. Even though the pond is designed for swimming, you can put cover in the pond away from the swimming area for the fish. If you aren't going to fish the pond a lot and take out fish on a frequent basis, I'd skip the HBC completely. Without cover or weeds in the pond you will have to stay ahead of the SMB population to ensure that they don't over eat the YP/RES. I'd only stock 40 per acre and after they get to 14" and spawn, I'd start taking out 50#/year the year after they spawn and keep track of their RW after that. If RW goes below 100%, remove 70#-80# the following two years, and all that time keep track of their RW.

I would not stock any SMB this year and probably not recommend stocking any next year. You are WAY light on stocking RES, that's only 33 per acre. Since they only spawn once a year, it will take a few years to get a viable reproducing self-sustaining population in the pond. With that few per acre, when they go to the shallows to spawn a GBH could easily wipe out over 50% of your population and set the pond back a year or two. What size were the RES when stocked?

Why so many TGC? Usual stocking rate is 7-14 per acre of vegetation in a pond.

Yes, HBC will reproduce in a pond and angling is required, but not to the extent that angling would be required with regular Black Crappie.